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1、课程简介:词汇语义学(英文授课)GenerativeLexiconTheory:TheoreticalandEmpiricalFoundations生成词库理论:理论的和经验的基础COURSEDESCRIPTION(课程简介)ThiscoursepresentsanintroductiontoGenerativeLexiconTheory.GenerativeLexicon(GL)isatheoryoflanguagesemanticsthatfocusesonthedistributednatureofco
2、mpositionalityinnaturallanguage.MuchofthemotivationforhowGLmodelsmeaningcomesfromtwomajorlinesofinquiry:(1)Howisitthatweareabletodeployafinitenumberofwordsinourlanguageinanunboundednumberofcontexts?(2)Islexicalinformationandtherepresentationsusedincomposing
3、meaningsseparablefromourcommonsenseknowledge?Inthiscourse,weaddressthebasicquestionsofhowwordsencodecontext.Morespecifically,weexaminetheformalmechanismsresponsibleforargumentandadjunctselectioninlanguage.Weoutlineatheoryoflexicallytype-drivensemanticselect
4、ionandcompositionthatpermitsrestrictedpolymorphisms,whileexplainingthecreativeuseofwordsinnovelcontexts.BuildingexplicitlyonGenerativeLexicon'srichernotionofcompositionality,weexplorethetypelanguage,thelogic,andthecomputationalprocessingnecessarytomodelloca
5、contextinnaturallanguage.Wordsencodelocalcontextastypinginformation.Thecompositionarulesofthelanguagerefertothesetypes.Theoperationspossibleduringcompositionforthesetypesare:selection(matching),coercion,exploitation,andintroduction.Wepresentanalysesofmanywe
6、ll-knowngrammaticalconstructionsusingcombinationsofthesemechanisms.Wewillexploretheformalpropertiesofthelanguagesthataregeneratedbyinclusionoftheseselectionmechanisms,andreviewhowcross-linguisticselectionphenomenacorrelatewiththemodelpresentedhere.Oneofmain
7、themesthroughoutthecoursewillbeontheempiricaljustificationoftheoreticalmodelsinlinguistics,focusingonlexicalandcompositionalsemanticprocesses.Hence,wewillstudycorpusdataforeveryphenomenonpresented,andwewillexaminehowtheformalgeneralizationsfromthetheoryarev
8、erified(orrefuted)whenconfrontedwithlargeamountsofrealdata.MaterialwillbebasedlargelyonPustejovsky(1995,2000,2001,2006,2011),BusaandBouillon(2001),PustejovskyandRumshisky(2008),PustejovskyandRumshisky(